Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...have imagined their new singings as revivals of these lapsed earlier practices.2See John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997), 188–244...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the pain. After the war, Lee privately called the report untrue but did not refute the allegation publicly. Historians today accept the account as accurate in the larger details.4John W....
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Greenwood Food Blockade and the Lewis Grocer Company’s campaign for a federal food stamps program in Mississippi. State and local government, as well as private corporations, wielded food power against...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...1936, Caldwell and Bourke-White had sought out the poorest black and white southerners, those Caldwell described as "struggling souls, living on tenant farms which are only clay deposits and sand...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...1996), 398. Similarly, in Atlanta, lower-income white parents protested that because they could not move away or choose private education like the "silk stocking crowd," they would be disproportionately affected...
The Black Belt
...photographs from 1914 US Geological Survey “Cretaceous Deposits of the Eastern Gulf Region,” Selma, Alabama, ca. 1914. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...exit, they'll lose their jobs. The rationale given publicly? For their safety. The reason given privately? To keep workers from stealing. Lynda says the store in Centreville has been there...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...the Louisiana State Board of Education. "Despite the efforts of the alliance and of its private investigators," declared PSA president A. H. Seward, the traffic in this social leprosy still...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...sexuality Public and private spheres and the development of queer subcultures Urban/rural and digital: gentrification, shifts in LGBTQ+ enclaves, and the importance of digital apps/dating in queer space and practice...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...patriarchal hierarchies of space, both public and private. Many early protests—the sit-in at Ladies Home Journal, for example, and the burning of undergarments at the Miss America pageant—were forms of...